Glass foam from window panes and bottle glass wastes

• Authors: Cosmin Vancea , Ioan Lazău
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Glass foams are building materials that now compete with classic insulating polymeric and fiber materials for thermal enveloping. The low flammability, high chemical durability and thermal stability are distinct advantages over polymeric materials. The present paper proposes the possibility of producing glass foam using two types of recycled glass wastes (window panes and bottle glass) together with plaster wastes from used ceramic casting molds as foaming agent. Optical microscopy, measurements of apparent porosity and density, hydrolytic and chemical stability, as well as thermal conductivity were used in order to characterize the obtained glass foams as insulator materials for the building industry. The apparent porosity of glass foams ranges between 20.19–54.54% when using window glass wastes, and 18.77–51.75% with bottle glass wastes. Thermal conductivity was less than 0.25 W mK-1 for all the studied glasses. The obtained results confirm that there exists an alternative method for producing glass foams, for example, from glass wastes and used ceramic plaster molds, which are utilized as foaming agents with good chemical stability and insulating properties.

Keywords

EN

Glass foam; Glass wastes; Window pane; Bottle glass; Plaster wastes

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Chemistry
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 804-811

Dates

published

1 - 7 - 2014

online

30 - 4 - 2014

Contributors

author

Cosmin Vancea

• Politehnica University Timisoara

author

Ioan Lazău

• Politehnica University Timisoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11532-014-0510-x